Game Gdd

investigations of water budgets, the concept of growing degree days has been used in place of the more conventional methods used to estimate ET. As defined in Lorenz and Delin (2007), growing degree days, GDD, is the annual sum of the average temperature each day minus a base temperature for a particular area. The GDD is used rather than ET to estimate the amount of net precipitation remaining per year that may potentially recharge groundwater. Most plants take up to 100 times more water…